Police responded to complex 560 times in 2012

4:53 PM,
Jan. 26, 2013

Written by

Lester Black
Leaf-Chronicle

It's nearly impossible to miss The Grove apartments when driving down Wilma Rudolph Boulevard. The 560-bed apartment complex towers above the Red River like a Civil-War fort protecting all that is upstream.

But behind the college apartment complex lies a quiet residential subdivision whose residents say they need protection from the traffic, safety and noise problems that The Grove has brought to their once quiet neighborhood.

And problems looked like they were only going to get worse. A local property developer purchased a 3.9-acre parcel next to The Grove and had applied to rezone the ...